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SXX

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About SXX

I'm Software Engineer with extremely wide knowlege across Java, web stack, C++, PHP and other technologies. I know how to bring project from idea to lauch and I always looking for something new to work on.

Currently I work full-time as CTO making games at Hack The Publisher.

Centum is released on PC, Xbox, Playstation an Switch:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2625550/Centum/

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10012850

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/centum/9N2GQKWLC0QM/0017

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/centum-switch/

Our other games:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287560/Vengeance_of_Mr_Peppermint/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076120/Dwarven_Skykeep/

- Maintainer of free and open source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III:

https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi

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https://arseniyshestakov.com/

Feel free to contact me:

me (at) arseniyshestakov (dot) com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arseniyshestakov

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49235745

    Insanity. 4GB was often not enough even back in late Windows 7 era.

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    Comment #49229626

    That CO2 will be emitted either way. We can choose though what % goes to funny cat videos and porn or useful open source code.

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    Comment #49229604

    DX3-7 is now well supported with D7VK (fork of DXVK). Likely such games will work better under Wine rather than modern Windows.

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    Comment #49215981

    This doesnt affect casino app spam whatsoever.

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    Comment #49206731

    High tech, low life.

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    Comment #49152669

    Has anyone know whatever they will release any video / image generation capabilities? Video input obviously suppose to be present.

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    Comment #49152648

    Is it enabled by default though? AFAIK: No

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    Comment #49121514

    Most interesting part IMO is whatever Qwen open weight will include image / video capabilities since its where they are strongest.

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    Comment #49090643

    It is fun. Also its answering the question of what gonna happen if you wake up tomorrow and datacenters are gone. Or internets are gone. Some people on our globe live in countries …

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    Comment #49052947

    > I want to know if there's a reason beyond that why widespread surveillance shouldn't be a thing. I'm not from US, but you dont have to mistrust specifically your current governme…

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    Comment #49052868

    Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

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    Comment #49052817

    Apple wanting to work with CXMT and YMTC was a trigger that got them sanctioned in first place. Though Apple likely have more leverage now considering how DRAM cartel restricting s…

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    Comment #49052726

    Except jslinux running actual thing.

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    Comment #49047724

    No it doesnt actually work because its possible to do privilege escalaction without tampering with firmware or filesystem or triggering other markera. OS will be practically rooted…

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    Comment #49047668

    > What would that be useful for anyway? It puts iPhone in cold boot state if for instance police or any agency confiscate it from you. Better tamper proofing.

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    Comment #49045590

    They dont care about security; only about control. There are hundreds of millions of outdated Android devices that all Google attestation systems consider secure even though they a…

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    Comment #49045548

    Sometimes it's truly useful featutes, but having no toggle in settings making it terrible. Like iPhone idle auto-reboot every 3 days. After a while they added "Allow Idle Reboot" f…

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    Comment #49045509

    This is solvable by adding big huge warning that ADB is running. Not by removing feature.

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    Comment #49024374

    Better to feed them poisoned results...

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    Comment #49000159

    Or weapons manufacturing. It can refuse to answer on a lot of topics.

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    Comment #48999923

    Now add Deepseek, GLM and Kimi :-)

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    Comment #48996980

    I choose fourth option. 4) googles big model just performs worse than K3 and GLM so they choose not to embarass themself. Like I love Gemini and use it a lot to one-shot whole MR w…

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    Comment #48996800

    Google also gave away 1 year Gemini plans with Pixel phones that either did not work at all for existing Google One users or messed up subscriptions by downgrading your account to …

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    Comment #48996665

    Yes I can, but then I wont be able to use some of very convinient fintech services. I also need to maintain my own nextcloud, photo sync infrastructure and backups. Its inconvinien…

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    Comment #48996448

    A lot of banks in UK and EU simply dont offer web access at all.